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Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 6)
Sramana: You said you have 70 people working on this project. Tell me a bit more about how you have built the team. Jana: There was no pool of people that I could go hire from who had done this before. You have to find and curate an amazing product that has a story. Our
Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 5)
Sramana: How did you fund the startup? Jana: I put it on my personal American Express card at first. I covered the first month of product myself. We have never taken any funding, and we have never taken on any investors. We also never had any startup capital. I was able to quickly pay myself
Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 4)
Sramana: You spent five months working a full-time job and working your starup business in parallel. What were you able to accomplish in those five months? Jana: Since our deals start at 9 a.m., I would be at my desk job at work. I would take a break at work and make sure every deal
Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 3)
Sramana: What is the business model? Jana: The business model itself is extremely demanding. The name of the company is Steals.com, and we have four niche daily deal websites that cater to women. The first one I started is BabySTEALS.com. We launch one new steal every 12 hours at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Pacific
Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 2)
Sramana: Is that what drove you to become an entrepreneur? Jana: As I drove away, I realized that I was a capable, smart girl who had been through harder things in life. I was perfectly capable of coming up with something that I would be able to do from home and make enough of an
Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Jana Francis is the co-founder of Steal Network, an interactive marketing company that delivers top-quality brands and products one day at a time to their online communities of women through the websites babySTEALS.com, scrapbookSTEALS.com, kidSTEALS.com, and sheSTEALS.com. Before founding Steal Network, Jana spent her career specializing
Helping SaaS Companies Grow Through Revenue Sharing: Avangate CEO Carl Theobald (Part 7)
Sramana: How does your affiliate market help entrepreneurs grow their business? Carl Theobald: Affiliates are really a reflection of how this new online world is not only leveling the playing field for start-ups, but providing the resources for entrepreneurs to focus on what they do best and outsource the rest. In this case, they can
Helping SaaS Companies Grow Through Revenue Sharing: Avangate CEO Carl Theobald (Part 6)
Sramana: It seems that many of your mid-market customers could be coming in through the self-service channel as well. Have you found that to be the case? Carl Theobald: That is a very good point. Our self-service channel is a very good sales tool. Software AG is a customer of ours that came to us